John Trapp on Ezra 6:10

Verſe 10. That they may pray for the life of the King] For God, at his pleaſure, cutteth off the ſpirits of Princes, Pſal. 76.12. he crops them off with eaſe, as one would do a flower; ſlips them off, as one would do a bunch of grapes; as he dealt by Alexander the Great, Attilas that Terrour of the world, and King Henry the ſecond of France, who upon the marriage of his ſiſter to the King of Spaine, was ſo puffed up, that he called himſelf by a new title, Tres-heureuſe Roy, the thrice-happy King. But (to confute him) in ſolemnizing that marriage, he was ſlaine at Tilt, by the Captaine of his guard (though againſt his will, but not without Gods determinate counſel) in the very beginning of his ſuppoſed happineſſe.Prov. 3[illegible: 1 letter]. Death is the onely King, againſt whom there is no riſing up. The mortall ſythe is maſter of the royal Scepter (ſaith one) and it moweth downe the Lilies of the Crowne, as well as the graſſe of the field: pray therefore for the life of the King, ſaith this King here; let the Prieſts ſhout and ſay, Let the King live for ever, Nehem. 2.3. [illegible: 1 word].

And of his ſonnes] Some of whom had ſoone died, ſay ſome: He therefore calleth for prayers for the preſervation of the reſt.